Politico Gets Raked Over the Coals for Kamala Harris Post: ‘One of the Worst Headlines Written in a Long Time’

HOLY SHIT. This is a much bigger deal than people realize. Politico is suggesting that her identity is in question to begin with. It's not.

She didn't evade a question about her identity because there is no question about her identity. She passed an opportunity to get upset over Trump's comments.

The hypocrisy. Trump evades questions about EVERYTHING, yet gets called almost never. Her answer isn't even an evasion. It was a whole dismissive argument on the absurdity of both the claim and question summarized in a terse “Same old, tired playbook. Next question, please.”

Honest question from a European: Do you guys still have journalism somewhere? It all seems to be political propaganda or outrage clickbait with you guys.

Multi race people are use to this shit. We are denied one race or another. If you don't look how people expect you will receive racist shit about both races, really fun.

I have many issues with Harris, but I'm glad she is exposing this shit. I'm tired of closet and undercover racists.

so that people know where Politico stands in terms of being a trustworthy source

I just assume all media actually want a Trump victory, because they get money writing articles and the money was good his first term. If Trump is good at anything, it's making headlines.

Keep in mind race is very important to conservatives. VERY IMPORTANT. to them, once an association is made ... It can not be changed. And you can't be 2 races at once. its very important to them and they have lots of rules about it.

Bash said: "But what I wanna ask you about is what he said last month. He suggested that you ‘happened’ to turn Black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity.”

Where was the question? That's simply a statement about what Trump said.

Politico's headline is outrageous, but what was Bash even trying to do here? Because it reads like she was trying to ask (without asking) if Harris is black, which is just as weird and absurd as Trump's original comment.

Harris's reply is great because it applies both to Trump's racism and the problem with journalists giving these comments anything more than ridicule.

How is plainly calling it out as the bullshit that it is "evasion?" That headline isn't just misleading; it's a straight-up lie.

Acting like there's any legitimate questions about Harris being a black person is inherently racist and doing the bidding of Trump. I didn't think very highly of Politico before this but unless they fire whoever wrote that headline they are dead to me now.

Axel Springer bought Politico a while ago. In other words: it's utter shit and absolutely useless for any actual reporting. But great if you want to peddle some reactionary bullshit.

Headline is still up on their front page even:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/30/harris-cnn-interview-race-gender-00176929

"Harris sidesteps the spotlight when it comes to her identity

The vice president makes her case on identity implicit. Black women are OK with that."

That seemed like the entirely right answer. It was a bullshit question that didn’t need dignified with a response.

These corporate media companies are all the same and are a blight upon our society.

She should have asked Bash when he happened to turn orange. He used to be white.

Journalism was already in a death spiral but this type of article just highlights it.

They're just taking a secondary source with a shitty headline, cherry picking spicy reactions on Twitter and then writing another shitty headline.

I could theoretically do the same thing, cherrypick Twitter and then post the following "article" to my own shit-tier political news blog:

"Mediaite panned for misleading headline about headlines."

The only "sources" I have to cite are random Tweets that I preselected because they already agreed with my point of view.

We are approaching something that is close to the opposite of journalism.

The headline is, “Harris sidesteps spotlight when it comes to her identity.”

Reminder that politico was bought by the german Axel Springer Publishing.

They (Axel Springer) own very big far right media outlets in germany and WILL try to meddle in the elections, if the price is right.

They have no morals and do journalistic malpractice all the time. It is a textbook evil company and belongs in the dumpster.

ps: The scientific Springer and Axel Springer are not the same.

Is there punishment when you falsify reports like this?

For once, this complaint is fully justified. She answered the question and said 'next' and they're implying she didn't answer the question by just saying 'next.'

I feel like sometimes "out of context" means they didn't report on additional relevant nuance in an answer but I'm sympathetic to headline authors who need punchy headlines, you can't have a full 20 minute answer in a headline. But this was a 6 word response and they took the last two and pretended she didn't say the first 4. That is bad.

The article is fine, tbh, it's just talking about how Harris is putting less emphasis on the historic nature of her candidacy versus Clinton in 2016. The headline was hot garbage though, just trying to bait those rage-clicks (which obviously worked).

Wow, I don't give a shiite about her identity or she even is. Is she gonna bomb people ? Yes, next question !